The Sun. — London, England, 1836-08-22 00:00:00

01"FlIE PUBLIC JOURNAI.. We have elsewhere copied from a Sunday contemporary, an account of the mode in which the various Bills intro duced into teal: Houses during the late session were dis posed of. The havoc made by the Lords is truly stir prHee But a question naturally suggests itself here. Is this Legislative firce to be continued? Is the Minister constantly to send up from the Commons Bills to be re jected or mutilated in the Lords? Certainly not. What was wanted has been o btaineil. We have obtained the proof—a proof that m ust satisfy the most difficult—that the Lords are guided by a different spirit from that which actuates the people of England—and that, consequently, no House of Commons fairly representing the people can avoid c orning in constant collision with the Lords. It is not n ecessary to revert to Lord Lyndhurst's speech. That s peech merely added insult to injustice. It was a challenge -thrown out to the nation. The people are treated as if no a.eoount was due to them. We should grieve, indeed, were the triumph to be any thing but short lived. Between the close of the late Session and the next meeting of Par liament, there will be time for deliberating on the course to be taken to meet the difficulty. Nothing must be pre cipitated ; !Mt at the same time respect must be had to the feelings of a great and enlightened nation disap pointed in its best founded expectations by the Peers, who seem determined to allow no measures to pass which con duce to the promotion of the interests of the people. The next Session will be a trying one for Ministers. During the present, there has been an understanding to give the Lords full scope, to go no faster than Ministers proposed to go. It was understood that the Lords were to have a fair trial. But the c onstituencies sill in their turn be heard. They will no doubt inform their Representatives that the object for which they were sent to Parliament re quires that something should be done to remove the Con stitutional objection. When there is an admitted evil, a remedy must be sought for. We may assume, then, that a large portion at least of the Reform Members will be anxious to bring matters to an issue with the Lords, that new spirit may be infused into that body. It is quite clear that ultimately Lords as well as Commons must be made responsible to the nation ; not responsible in the way the Lords now choose to term themselves, wherein they do as much, or as little as they please, having no check on their caprice, except that which even ty rants have, the dread of provoking the people too far. This is not the responsibility with which the nation will be satisfied. In some way or other, the wishes and in clinations of the people must be brought to bear di rectly upon the Peers. We observe that some of our con temporaries seem to think that Mr. O'Connell is disposed to carry patience too far in return for the excellent and im partial administration of Ireland. But no man sooner understands the nature of the crisis and its claims than Mr. O'Connell. He will see the necessity of all Reformers acting in concert. It is possible that the Peers are not altogether satisfied with the tone of Lord Lyndhurst's speech on Thursday night. Lord Melbourne remarked that no one thing could differ more from another than the speech of the Duke of Wellington from that of Lord Lynd hurst. But this is more matter of taste than anything else. It is clear that all the Tory Peers approve of the policy which has been pursued towards the measures which re ceived the sanction of the representatives of the people. All the Tory Peers are actuated by one and the same spirit of hostility to the nation and its interests. Some may think there is no use in adding insult to injustice. But these are minor matters. The problem which is to be solved is how the House of Peers shall be made to sympathise with the nation. But as we have said, grave deliberation must precede the decision as to the course which must be adopted to effect the object of the Reformers. The people will rouse themselves to the exertions that will be demanded of them. At present they are disgusted with the Lords ; but they remain passive, knowing that it is unnecessary for them to bestir themselves. When the time comes they will be ready. There are few, we. believe, who carry their notions of Reform so far as to dispense with the Lords altogether. The advantage of having every measure canvassed by a second body prior to its becoming law is generally felt. In fact, the Lords at present very skilfully avail themselves of the persuasion that the power to examine the measures sent from the Commons is indespensable ; as if the necessity for subjecting the measures which pass the Commons to a re vision, proved that the revision could only be performed by a House of Lords constituted as the present is. We must, therefore, have two Houses ; but not two Houses actuated by opposite views, and impelled by a different spirit. We may still, therefore, have a House of Lords, but a House of Lords so modified as to be responsible to the nation. The feelings of the Reformers in the House of Commons with respect to the House of Lords are expressed in Mr. Hume's speech on Saturday, which was interrupted by the entrance of the Usher of the Black Rod. "We have been at our posts (said Mr. Hume) early and late, and for one I will say that I was anxious to see those improvements carried into effect which the country call for. But why do we of the House of Commons feel•ealled on to defend ourselves ? For this reason, that very little has been done. And what has been the cause ? The House of Lords, to whose arbitrary and factious proceedings the Commons have been compelled to submit." " Can we (he afterwards observed), I should like to know, suffer this determined opposition to go on much longer without raising the question How long shall such a power continue ?'" And the Honourable Member went directly to the question which must now be agitated : " Sir, I do not think that the other House can reject a propo sition coming from this for reforming themselves, when they were not only willing to sweep away corporations altogether in Ireland, but had assented to the reform of this House. —( Hear.) When we meet again, Sir, which I trust will be in November, because I think the Government should call the House toge ther as soon as possible, I hope his Majesty's Ministers will send up their measures as soon as possible to the Lords, and let the other House of Parliament do with them what they please. It is only by such means that we can obtain for the people what they desire, and what the Reform Bill intended to give them ; and should the Lords persevere in the course they have pursued, it may speedily become a question, Of what use are the Peers?' Are we, Sir, to be told, when we know that a change has taken place in the Monarchy, after a change has been effected in the constitution of this House, that no change should take in the House of Lords, even though it will not allow the business of the country to be car ried on in a constitutional and proper way, and sets itself in opposition to all popular rights, and above all' popular control ? Sir, the contest which is going, on is—whether the aristocracy or democracy shail have the ascendancy—whether the Peers, or the Government of the people of England shall prevail. The business of the country ought to be carried on by the re presentatives of the people; but the H o u se o f L or d s d en i e d this, and therefore arrayed themselv es in opposition to all good measures, and put a stop to all improvements." This, then, is to be the watchword of the country—Re form of the Ilouse of Lords, without which all reform is illusory. When the people of these kingdoms are deter mined on the reform of the Lords, that body must yield. The voice of an united people is irresistible.—Morning Chronicle. The Speech front the Throne on the Prorogation of Par liament is now before the public, and a precious specimen it is of the incapableness and the contemptiblenes of our Radical-ridden Ministry. We told our readers of one of the passages of it that would be struck out—we need hardly say we mean that which reflected on the House of Lords. It is evident, however, that the Speech underwent curtail ment in other particulars. An eye practised in the perusal of Kings' speeches will discover at a glance that whole paragraphs must have been omitted from the draft of this, and th a t ot h ers m i ght have been suppl i ed, or the con nexion of the dislocated parts clumsily contrived in sulky and suflea haste. We will not pretend to point out where, besides in the attack upon the House of Lords, his Ma jesty thought proper to apply the knife to what zoos one of the longest, and is one of the shortest, speeches ever de livered from the Throne. It is not a little amusing to ob serve how, on this subject, the Ministerial print; not con tenting themselves with falsehood, which is their forte, have been betrayed into attemprs at argumentation, which their friends in mercy should advise them to eschew. For see how they have succeeded. They tell us now that the Ministers could never have dreamed of puttin g in the speech a passage reflecting on the House of Lords, for that would be " most unconstitutional and unprecedented." In the name of all experience, what better ground could the most refined in genuity have adduced for - believing that the apostate Whig- Radical Government would have inserted the passage if they could ? Has not their whole conduct been —i s not their whole conduct—" most unconstitutional and unpre cedented ?" Besides, the very ragamuffins who hold this language now had for the last day or two preceding, in re . - ply to ourselves, been assuring the public that " his Ma jesty would not shrink, should his Ministers deem it expedient to characterize as it deserved the destructive Policy of the Lords !" May the Lord reform and inform these poor wretches ! Had any of them, not purblind, been present in the House of Lords on Saturday, they would have had token sufficient of his Majesty's feeling to wards the Conservative Lords. Which of them, with eyes in his head, could have failed to notice the friendly con -Yerse,of his Majesty with the Duke of Wellington ; the marked and cordial greeting of the King to Lord Lynd hurst ; and, in contrast, the pitiably stiff spectacle of poor 'Lord Melbourne, shoulderin g - the sword of State—an awkw.ird victim of stately etiquette —no more thought of than thei gentleman that laboriously enacts in ephemeral finery the part of champion on Lord Mayor's day in the wet, and is stuck up in a niche to dry during dinner-time ! We-re -peat here that his Majesty did reject from the speech a pas sage, such as we have described, directed against the House of Lords ; and therein his Majesty acted in consistency with his ;recorded opinions respecting the value and i mportance o f t, he independence , of the House of Lords. So long ago as IV `ay, 1792, his Majesty being then Duke of Clarence, said, in t `.lle House of Lords-- , " Another circumstance had great w&glit, with him—namely, that an implicit obedienc.r to the 1 House of Commons, much as he respected that House, would render the House of Peers useless, and thus the natu ral and constituent balance in the Constitution would be en dangered. This he never would endure." But we must pass to our notice of the speech, which, curtailed cer tainly of its cardinal claptrap—the attack upon the Peers—must also, as we have said, have undergone abridg ment in other parts which we have not the means of desig nating. The speech, then, is obviously " done by various hands," as our early translations of classic authors were, and in quite as odd a style. The part relative to foreign affairs was " done" by Cupid, of course, and that must .xcuse the true-lovers' knot nonsense about " drawing closer the ties which connect this country," &c. Fancy this modern antique connecting the old world with the new by means of a bit of rose-coloured riband—for red tape, we suppose, an " elderly young gentleman" of our Cupid's cut would scorn to use ! The more abstruse phraseology of another paragraph in the speech, which makes honourable mention of certain enactments that were " brought to maturity with t reat labour," is, we suppose , an obstetric contribution of Lord Langdale. The " large principles" were obviously brought by a porter from Lord Little John, and the Master of the Horse must have sent his groom down to South•street with the " stable pros perity." So much for the style. The speech pompously congratulates the country on the passing of three measures —the Tithe Bill, the Marriage Bill, and the Registration of Births, &c., Bill. It happens, however, that not only were all these three measures announced by the Govern ment of Sir R. Peel nearly two years ago—that not only would they have been passed nearly two years ago, iad it not been for the opposition of the Whig-Radicals—but that, if it be a subject of congratulation that these measures have passed at last, the credit of their passing is wholly due . to Ithe Conservatives, not to the Government or to their sup porters ; for the Conservatives put into the Tithe Bill ail the good it has in it, and the Conservatives weeded the Marriages Bill and Registration Bill of their most ob noxious enactments. In truth, there is but one passage of the speech which (besides the parts relative to Fo reign Affairs that we have noticed separately) deserves any serious observation, and that is the passage which speaks of the prosperity of the country. We mean that the subject of this paragraph should be gravely treated, not the paragraph itself, for what between Mr. Pullet Thomson, who wrote it, and the interpola tion of the Master of the Horse, it is exquisitely ridi culous. But no one, we apprehend, will venture to deny that the country is in a most prosperous state. Indeed, the fact is so notorious, that even the circumstance of the Ministers bearing witness to it fails to throw suspicion or doubt upon it—though (we need hardly say) that those, alas for the honour of the country ! are the dark shadows their countenance ordinarily casts on all things they recom mend for clearly true. But whence this prosperity ? Look at our political condition, and tell us if there can be other than one answer to the question. We have a sort of shut tlecock Government, that is kept in action, or rather in motion, only by the battledores of two opposing parties, either of whom might knock it, as Lord Melbourne would say, " to the very Devil," if they chose to hit hard enough. Of itself it can do nothing—nay, cannot even keep at rest. The Destructive:, who put it in motion, live, breathe, and move, but in the hope that by and by they may hazard bolder play, and drive it onward by the application of a stronger blow. Whither ? Let their own speeches and their own writings tell. It has been their intemperance that has betrayed, not their honesty that has declared, their game. The English and Scotch Destructive: would de stroy the House of Lords, and annihilate religion by laying the axe to the root of the establishment, and planting that infidel tree of liberty catled the " voluntary principle" in its stead. In this traitorous and unholy work they have the assistance of the Irish rebels. But they pay dearly for it. The rebellious Irish frankly tell that their aim and end, no matter what the steps and stages, is the dismemberment of the empire ; and though their parricidal colleagues (we blush to write it !), British colleagues, say they go not that length, yet they have proved that they have no indisposition to establish Popery in Ireland, and to hand over to the Papists in that country all the power necessary to enable the Repealer: to compel the dismem berment of the empire, except at the expense of an out pouring of Protestant blood which it is frightful to con template. Lord Jahn Russell, a Cabinet Minister, who encouraged these Rebel Repealers, and by coupling the case of Ireland with that of the revolted colonies of North America, but too clearly pointed out to them the course they might, if they dared, pursue, talked much of blood shed, but more of the expense of treasure. The last is as nothing in such a calculation, though to this Lord Russell's peddling self, lately much pinched in pocket, and now com paratively pampered, it may seem the all in all. For the other—the outpouring of blood in war—it is of far more se rious import than can be understood by such a one as he whose greatest wound and largest loss of blood would pro bably be covered and stopped by the smallest thumb-stall. But can there be in this frightful, though faithful, picture any thing that a sane man will call satisfactory ? Can there be anything that savours of security or safety in the composi tion of the party which props and propels at. pleasure our (to the Destructives) passively obedient and non-resisting Government ? Impossible. Whence, then, that sense of security without which our commerce and our manes- factures would fade and fall, not rise and flourish ? it arises, as every man who can see and understand anything must admit, in the palpable certainty that the restricting force of Conservatism is greater than the propelling force of Destructiveism—that the power by which the Government is moved may be in an instant overcome and paralysed, if that which is is opposed to it be called into action, as assu redly it will, as it ever has been, if occasion require it. In the fact Lord Melbourne himself admitted, that the vast inajority of the intelligence, the wealth, and the property of the country was opposed to the Government, the people have seen safety, and in the consciousness of that safety they have proceeded with their characteristic energy and activity to the acquisition of the wealth that constitutes prosperity, but which, being precarious and insecure, no man would think it worth his while to endeavour to try to make his own, at however small an outlay of time and trouble. It would be ridiculously absurd to suppose that every branch of industry would not have withered and fallen to the ground if the prospect which the Government holds out had form ed the horizon ofthe nation's view : it would be folly approach ing almost to insanity to believe that any man would have trusted his money in the funds of this country if he believed there was no power to stay the rash career of our Ministers —if lie was not sure that, let the Radicals spur them as they will, the curb of the Conservatives would still be strong enough to pull such hacknied cattle back on their very haunches on the shortest notice. We doubt whether even the respectable shopkeepers at the west end of this town would ever have ventured to take down their shutters dur ing the session of Parliament, notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, if they had not been well assured of the ex istence of some power beyond the Government to prctect them and their goods from the triune tail of English, Scotch, and Irish " Destructives." In these plain and obvious truths, then, let the Conservatives see the rich and substan tial tribute which their fellow-countrymen of all parties and politics have paid to the overwhelming power, the in calculable worth, and the admirable direction of their ser vices. Let them proceed, nor fear, with God's blessing and- the voice of the country on their side, that they can ever fail to prosper.— Times. The parliamentary session of 1836 is at an end, to the great joy of a community among whom the feeling had be come nearly universal that there was much greater cause of fear than of hope in the protracted labours of the Legis lature. It is admitted on all hands to have been a very tiresome and a very unproductive session. Of the va rious subjects of legislation which Ministers promised in the Royal Speech, at the commencement of the ses sion, to submit to the consideration of Parliament, some have been entirely neglected, others have been brought forward in a way calculated, if not intended, to en sure that nothing whatever should be done ; and with respect to those subjects of national importance which were recommended to the early attention of Parlia ment in his Majesty's Speech, and upon which legislation has taken place, the measures finally adopted by Parlia ment are in most instances entirely different from those which his Majesty's Ministers introduced. On the 4th of February the King spoke as fellows to the two Houses of Parliament. " I rejoice that the present state of public affairs, both at home and abroad, is such as to permit you to proceed, without delay or interruption, to the calm examination of those measures which will be submitted to your consideration." In these favourable circum stances Parliament has been sitting fer nearly seven months. And what have the King's Ministers done during this protracted Session to realise the anticipa- Con which they advised their Royal Master to express at its commencement? So little, as we shall presently see, that their own words may now be quoted against them to convey the gravest reproach and the bitterest sarcasm. •The first subject to which the attention of the Legislature was directed by the King's Speech at the opening of the Session was the Church. After mentioning_ his expectation that the further Report o f th e Church Commission would soon be presented, his Majesty proceeded to say, " you will direct your early attention to the Ecclesiastical Establish ment, with the intention of rendering it more efficient for the holy purposes for which it has been instituted." Little, however, has been done in pursuance of the important ad monition which Ministers put into the mouth of the Sove reign. And here, at least, it cannot be said that obstruc tion has been offered,. by the House of Lords. Their Lordships manifested the utmost readiness to act upon the suggestions of the Commissioners. They discussed, and finally adopted, several important measures, " with the intention of rendering the Ecclesiastical Establishment more efficient." In their Lordships' proceedings upon this subject THE SiMi l LON DON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1836. they had Hie advantage of the full concurrence and cordial co-operation of such members of the Administration as have seats in the Upper House of Parliament, as was indeed natu rally to be expected, considering that several of the highest Ministers of the Crown had already, as Commissioners, concurred in the suggestions upon which those proceedings were founded. But, nevertheless, obstructions did arise. The proposed Church reforms were not sufficiently inimical to the Church, or sufficiently favourable to the wishes of • these who, having abandoned the Church, are anxious to - pull it down, to satisFy a certain section of the supporters of Government in the House of Commons. This section of the House of Commons forthwith began to bluster and bully the very feeble and incompetent person who has the misfortune to be the Ministerial leader in that assembly. Lord John Russell yielded to their dictation, and consented to stultify the Ministry, and to defeat the legislative labours of the House of Lords, by the abandonment of measures which, on the recommendation of Ministers, the House of Lords had passed. All the obstruction to successful legis lation in this interesting department of public affairs arose in the House of Commons ; none of it in the House of Lords. Whatever failure has occurred in . realising the anticipa tions of the King's Speech as to Church Reform in Eng land—and the failure has been deplorable—is to be ascribed exclusively to the rancorous sectarianism which has its representatives in the House of Commons, or to the weakness, the folly, and the inconsistency of Ministers, and not, in any manner or degree, to the reluctance of the House of Lords to reform the Church Establishment, so as to " render it more efficient for the holy purposes for which it has been instituted." Having thus shown %rho were the " obstructives" who prevented wholesome and necessary legislation in reference to that most important department of public affairs, which occu pied the first place in the admonitory passages of the King's Speech, let us now proceed to the second recom mendation. We here allude to the question of tithe in England and Wales. " A measure," we again quote from his Majesty's Speech, " will he submitted to you, having for its end the rendering this mode of providing for the Clergy more fixed and certain, and calculated to relieve it from that fluctuation and those objections to which it has hitherto been subject." Their own recommendation upon this matter, contained in the King's Speech, was not neglected by Ministers, nor was the measure they brought forward in pursuance of it obstructed either by the opponents or the friends and supporters of the Ad ministration. A law has since been enacted upon this sub- ject, from which, although it is certainly less safe, and, pro bably, may prove less efficacious, than the measure pro posed by Sir R. Peel, considerable advantages to the Church as well as to the owners and occupiers of land are to be expected. If Ministers shall appear, however, to have been in any degree successful in this instance, they will have succeeded by means of a process so tedious, so perplexing, and so clumsy, that it contributed more, per haps, than any other circumstances to the general sterility of the session. The measure promised in the King's speech, and brought forward by Lord John Russell, was a mere abortion. It had manifestly been concocted in utter igno rance of the subject to which it related. It had to be taken to pieces and re-constructed half-a-dozen times before it could be converted into such a Bill as even the House of Commons could consent to pass. It received amendment after amendment, now at the suggestion of some opponent of the Administration, now -at the suggestion of some friend. Tory, Whig, and Radical, each contributed his quota of improvement, so that when the measure had to receive the Royal assent, nothing remained of the original. The banquet of legislation which Ministers had promised to give was gradually converted into a pic-nic, to which the no minal founders of the feast were discovered in the end to have contributed little or nothing. The waste of labour and of time was immense, from the inability of Minis ters to produce an adequate, or even a rational mea sure. And, as a necessary consequence, multitudes of other Bills of great importance were sent up to the House of Lords in a state so crude, or at so late a period of the year, that it was physically impossible that they should re . - ceive the attention they deserved and required, and there fore they were lost. Here again we repeat the question, Who were the Obstructives ?" Did the House of Lords waste their time upon this single measure so as necessarily to prevent them from doing anything else ? Did they imi tate in this respect the exampl e o f Lord John Russell and his supporters in the House of Commons ? No, they proceeded in the matter like men of sense and men of busi ness. They made such corrections in the measure as they thought necessary or expedient ; but they did not deal with it as if this Bill and this alone was to fill up the whole Par liamentary year. They did not act, in short, after the manner of Lord John Russell. Nobody can pretend to say, when they compare the conduct of the House of Lords with that of the House of Commons in the particular instance before us, that it is the former body that has chiefly ob structed the business of legislation. The next admonition of the King's Speech related to the removal of " any cause of offence or trouble to the consciences" of Dissenters. This has been followed by the Bill which provides for the general registration of births, and for the cele bration of marriages without the assistance of the Church. This portion of the King's Speech has not been wholly ne glected. Something has been done in consequence of it ; but whether it has been beneficially, or even safely, done, remains yet to be seen. The measure possesses this pro perty in common with all that have ever been introduced by the present Administration, that it creates some very desirable patronage. This is an object never overlooked in Whig reforms. His Majesty then recommended some pro vision to be made for the more speedy and satisfactory ad ministration of justice, particularly in the Court of Chan cery ; and the admonition has produced the scheme of Lord Cottenham for the reform of our equitable jurisdictions, a scheme which was no sooner brought forth than it was ex tinguished by the laughter and the ridicule of men of all parties. The King expressed in the next sentence of his Speech his anxious desire that Parliament might " be able to effect a just settlement of the question of tithe in Ire land, upon such principles as will tend at length to esta blish harmony and peace in that country." Here, we can not but remark, that there is not a syllable about the prin ciple of appropriation. The object recommended to the Legislature was " to effect a just settlement of the ques tion of tithe in Ireland." And how did Ministers set about to accomplish the desire which they advised the So vereign to express ? By embarrassing their measure for the settlement of the tithe question, with a provision entirely foreign to its nature, and to which it. was morally certain that the House of Lords would not consent—by producing their measure in a form in which they knew it would not become law, and by doggedly refusing to permit the sepa ration of enactments having no natural connection with each other, and the continued junction of which must, as they well knew, be fatal to the Bill. Can there be a stronger proof than this conduct affords, of hypocrisy and bad faith ? And are Ministers who thus contrive the defeat of their own measures, or are their adherents to be listened to with any degree of patience, when they accuse others of ob structing the course of legislation ? The Municipal Cor porations in Ireland form the subject of the next passage in the Royal Speech. The measure which Ministers intro duced for the reform as it was called of these bodies, but in reality for their destruction, and the creation of new ones under the absolute dominion of Mr. O'Connell, was defeated most justly and wisely by the House of Lords. The Ministerial attempt to get up a clamour out of doors upon the defeat of this project, and the complete and miserable failure of this attempt, not only in Great Baitain but in Ireland, are circumstances which will not soon be forgotten by the nation. They have damaged the character of the Admi nistration more than any-other of the numerous vices into which they have plunged, or any other of the innumerable disgraces which have befallen them. The condition of the poorer classes of the King's subjects in Ireland, although especially recommended in the King's Speech to the atten tive consideration of the Legislature, has been wholly neglected by Ministers throughout the session. Two measures relating to this most important subject were pro posed, by Sir H. Musgrave and Mr. Powlett Scrope re spectively, but here his Majesty's Ministers were the suc cessful " Obstructivcs." The dominion of Mr. O'Connell, their ally, would be endangered by any measure calculated for the real benefit of the millions of the Irish population which sufficiently explains why no attempt has been made to realise the promissory passage of the King's Speech. Of the numerous measures which the House of Commons accepted from his Majesty's Ministers during the session, and which the House of Lords in its wisdom thought proper to reject, some were condemned because they evidently had other objects in view than those which they professed ; some be cause their professed object was evidently mischievous ; many because the business of the House of Commons had been so conducted by Ministers as to lead to an accumulation of Bills on the table of the House of Lords at an advanced period of the Session, when there was not time for their deliberate examination. But there are very few of them indeed of which the country has any reason to regret the loss or the postponement. The House of Lords has presented to the nation a specimen of high minded and courageous independence, an example of noble firmness in the assertion of' the Constitutional rights it enjoys for the advantage and protection of all ranks and classes of the people of England, which are of incomparably greater value than any, or than all, the Ministerial Bills which their Lord ships, in the honourable and uonscientioas discharge of their duty, have thought fit to destroy, And we sincerely be lieve that no Session of Parliament was ever brought to a conclusion in Great Britain when the House of Lords en joyed a larger share of the best and most valuable kind of popularity.—Morning Post. To the astonishment of every one, not omitting his own colleagues, Lord Melbourne, in the course of his angry reply to Lord Lyndhurst's. searching and overwhelming attack on Thursday, actually went out of his way to justify and lament over the rejected newspaper registration clause, which, in an evil hour for their scanty remains of reputa tion, the Ministers in the House of Commons had assented to—assented to, to gratify those warm and consistent ad vocates of the liberty of the Press, their Radical allies. It is said that when " the wine is in the wit is out." It is equally true that when a man, either in public or private life, gives way to heat and passion, reason loses its com mand, and he either gives way to venomous personality, or to the utterance of things totally at variance with his sober conviction, and sometimes to both. Such, it is to he hoped, was Lord Melbourne's situation on the memorable oc casion alluded to ; and such unfortunately has been more than once the case during the late mystifying period of the Noble Viscount's Parliamentary life. if we could believe Lord Mel bourne to be deliberately in earnest in his alleged approbation of the measure in question, we should cease to give him credit for that share of understanding as well as of political consistency, which, notwithstanding the false position in which he allows himself to be placed, we have hitherto felt inclined to give him credit for. We look upon it, however, as nothing more than an ebullition of querulous pique and resentment—unworthy, certainly, of any man, and, above all, of a man at the head of public affairs, but excusable as a weakness of our common nature, from which greater men than Lord Melbourne have shown themselves not ex empt. Till, however, this indiscreet avowal is retracted, we are entitled to consider Lord Melbourne among the bitter est enemies of the liberty of the Press. This, indeed, would turn out to be no great wonder, when we consider that his Lordship is now the nominal head of a party which, under colour of advocating freedom in every way, have proved themselves at all times, when in power, its bitterest foes, and the greatest tyrants of which party annals furnish us with any records. The tender mercies of their poor law speaks volumes in con firmation of this. The measure in question, which has thus called forth Lord Melbourne's volunteer eulogium and re gret, was one of the most reprehensible, because the most wanton and useless inroads upon the liberty of the Press which has ever been attempted ; and, having been assented to, as we would fain hope, in an unguarded moment, is one which a sensible man would be glad to be rid of, and would have allowed to descend into the tomb of the Capulets without notice, and certainly without regret. But not so the leader of the liberty-loving Whigs. He tells us (in a tone of passion and fury, it is true), that he only regrets the loss of the manacles with which he hoped to have bound us. As a mere effort of spite and chagrin, which we as sume it to have been, it was unworthy of Lord Melbourne's station ; but if we are to take it in earnest, and as his deli berate, though not calm opinion, we thank him in the name of the Press for the warning ; and shall hope to profit by it.—Morning Herald. Mr. Hume's services in the cause of Reform have been great and manifold. Few men have laboured more success fully—none more zealously—to secure to the people of this country the benefits of good and cheap government. 'The nation owe him a debt of gratitude which they never can repay ; his spirited conduct on Saturday vastly increases the amount of obligation. Nothing could have been better timed than his speech on that occasion. One only oppor tunity was afforded the Representatives of the people of repelling the attack made on themselves, or of resenting the insult offered to the country by the " man to whom God has given great talents, but whose application has been hitherto under the direction of the devil." Mr. Hume promptly seized the opportunity ; he did more—he turned it to the best account. His speech was an able one :it was, moreover, quite to the purpose. The Tories may now save themselves the trouble of posting the Lyndhurst oration, as advised by the Times, on the walls of every house in the country. Mr. Hume's masterly speech has taken the sting out of it : it cannot now do the slightest harm ; it may be productive of much good, as indicating the spirit by which the Tory Aristocrats in the hereditary House are actuated both towards the people and their representatives. Mr. Hume's seasonable and triumphant refutation of the Lynd hurst harangue will be read with the deepest interest and the highest gratification from one end of the empire to the other. To the report of it, which we give in another part of our paper, we beg, therefore, to refer our readers. But there is one part of it of such paramount importance, as to deserve the special attention of the people of England : we allude to that part of it in which, after most triumphantly fastening on the Lords the guilt of strangling every useful measure sent up to them, and proving that they, and they alone, will be responsible for whatever consequences may follow, he boldly proclaims the imperative necessity of taking those steps which will wrest from the Upper House the means of doing future mischief. " Are we," he says, "to be stopped and interrupted in this way, without opposing the power by which all our exertions in the cause of Reform are rendered nugatory ? Can we, I should like to know, suffer this determined opposition to go on much longer without raising the question, How long shall such a power con ' tinue ?'" Assuredly not. The grand error of the Reformers has been, that this opposition to all good government has been allowed to go on much tea long. We foresaw, before the commencement of the Sessio7i, what would be the conse • quence of having a House of Lords constituted as that branch of the Legislature is at present—time after time • did we foretell it, too. But the warning was unheeded. Regrets, however, are unavailing now ; nor, indeed, are we sure, if after all it ought to be matter of regret, that another Session of indulgence has been given the Lords. They now stand forth in all their native hideousness. They have torn with their own hands the mask from their face. Will any man, not absolutely blinded by the virulence of party • spirit, any longer affect to doubt that the Peers are deter mined not only to strangle every measure of reform sent • up to them by the other House, but to perpetrate the mischief under the aggravating circumstances of at the same time studiously insulting both the Commons and the people ? Then, therefore, comes a recurrence of Mr. Hume's question—" How long are the Lords to have this " power ?" Will the people endure a repetition of the con duct they have pursued this Session, when Parliament • again meets ? If they would not, they must have recourse • to the necessary measures to prevent it. What are these? • They are obvious as the light of the day. The House of Lords must be reformed, that is the plain English of the matter. What avails it that the nation makes sacrifices unknown in any other country to return able and faithful representatives to Parliament ? What signify the Hercu lean labours of these representatives, for seven long months, with scarcely a day's intermission ? Both the exertions of the people and of the Commons go for nothing. The most carefully digested measures of the latter,' demanded • by the voice of the former, are destroyed by a single breath from the hereditary legislators. The House of Commons, in fact, is, virtually speaking, no longer a branch of the Constitution, and the people have consequently no voice in the legislation of the country. The Peers at this moment may be said to constitute the Legislature, apart from both the Commons and the King. No measures can reach the King but through the Lords, and they will suffer no measure of importance to pass which the people demand, and which the Commons pre pare. 'The anomaly has existed too long—it must now be put an end to. One course only is open—the people must take the remedy into their own hands. They must, we repeat, set in earnest about the work of re-modelling the Lords. And to do this effectually, no time must be lost. Parliament will meet again in five months—possibly sooner —let, then, the Reformers be tip in every part of the coun ' try ; let meetings take place throughout the width and breadth of the empire, to discuss the best means of accom plishing that reform of the Upper House by which alone the master grievance under which the people of England la bour can be remedied.—Morning Advertiser. THE FORGERY OF TIIE BANK.—Attempts are said to have been made to hush up this affair, and keep the proceedings from the public, which have, of course, given the affair tenfold interest, and made every one curious to learn what were really the facts. These may briefly be told. Mr. --, an attorney, was in a joint account for the sum of 7,9001. Three per Cent. Consols, and in December, 1835, he is stated to have forged a power of attorney to that amount. As the law at present stands, the only forgeries now punished with death are those of powers of attorney and wills. It is sup posed, as the accused party had to forward the half-yearly di vidends to the owners, that he calculated there would be little risk of detection for a very considerable period. By some chance, however, his co-trustees discovered what had taken place, gave information against him, and the attorney was ar rested in his own office. It was only by accident that this de linquency was not sooner discovered. At the time the for gery was committed one of the gentlemen in the Bank, whose duty it is to examine signatures, had some doubt of the one now called in question. When this happens it is the usual practice to refer the subject to the parlour, where the Direc tors take the proper steps to set the matter at rest. The forged signature came in due form before them, but they hav ing examined it, believed it to be genuine. At present it is unnecessary to mention the differences of opinion said to exist as to the steps now proper to be taken, further than to say, that while a certain party called for justice another thought the case one in which mercy might properly be shown. The individual whose name was forged, according to report, cannot bring his memory to bear on the subject at all. HYDROPHOBIA.—On Wednesday Mr. Thomas, the Secretary to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals, summoned a ruffian named Charles Brookes before the Magistrates at Union-Hall, for brutally ill-treating a dog, near Rowland Hill's chapel, in the Blackfriars-road. It appeared from the evidence, that the offender had not only over-driy en the poor animal in a heavy dog-p ar t, pyF Alien it ink from exhaust*, hp bo •sp, i l eyercly beatpn it %rich a heavy stick, that when taken oyt of the harness it was completely in a rabid state, and had actually inflicted a severe bite on its in human task -master. The Magistrate, in the course of a se vere comment on the brutality evinced by the fellow, observed that one-half of the numerous cases of hydrophobia had their origin in the cruelty exercised towards dogs—an opinion fully borne out by the celebrated Yauatt, who has recently pub lished a work on canine madness. The offender was fined 20s. and costs, and in default of payment to be committed to pri son for one month, with hard labor, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) The Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. Cory, arrived on Thursday from the River Gambia, to which quarter she had been sent with presents from the King of England to the native Chiefs on the coast of Africa, between that river and the southern border of the Great Desert of Sahara, including the King of Traza, a tribe of Moorish Arabs, who are the principal collectors of and dealers in the valuable gums of the extensive forests of that country. These presents con sisted of double and single barrelled guns, pistols, beads, and a coarse blue cotton cloth, and nave been distributed as re wards for the friendly disposition shown towards the trade of this country, at a period when the French were endea vouring by every means in their power to interrupt the trade, and incense the natives against us. Under the pru dent management of Lieutenant-Governor Randall, of the Gambia, who had the care of the distribution of these pre sents, matters have been put en a better footing than here tofore, and a large increase of trade is looked to as a con quence. A disturbance had occurred at M'Arthy Island, about 400 miles up the Gambia river, in which all the Go vernment stores had been burnt ; the cause of it was not known. The Rolla brig had been at the Gambia, but had gone again to Sierra Leone, at which latter place upwards of twenty pirate vessels were still lying, seized by our cruizers under the new law, because they were fitted to receive slaves, and waiting to be condemned ; but in the mean time the greatest part of their Spanish crews were dying of the country epidemic. Our squadron and the settlements were considered healthy. The Pantaloon left the Gambia on the llth of July. The Glasgow steamer arrived on Tuesday from San Se bastian, with about 32 officers and 150 men from the Bri tish legion. She left that port on Friday morning, the 12th inst., but brings no news ; no military occurrence had taken place since the Ist inst., on the evening of which doy a reconnoissance took place, to ascertain if the Car lists were fortifying the positions which General Evans's out-posts occupied previous to his attack on Fontarabia. This movement occurred in the evening, and lasted two hours, with . the loss of about 20 men. The whole legion was dispirited and dissatisfied, for want of money ; they were on the eve of mutiny, and, for want of employment, were getting disorganised. The casualties continued very great, and notwithstanding so many recruits have been sent out, we doubt if 4,000 British bayonets could, on an emergency, be mustered. A very intelligent officer rated the number as low as 3,000, and the most flattering en thusiast states them to be 5,000. Even at this number what a fearful loss of life has taken place in an untoward speculation to support a liberal cause for a worthless people, incapable of appreciating the exertions which have been made for them. Our countrymen have been deceived, but not disgraced, and the sooner they quit such an ungrateful service the better. The following officers came home in the Glasgow, very few of whom, we suspect, mean to re turn :—Colonels Fortescue, Swan, Finucane, C. P. Yard ley ; Captains Palmer, Ogilvie, Pearce, Haggarty, Town (an amateur), McDougal (Commissariat to the Fleet) ; Lieutenants Disney (Ist Lancers), Wade (2d Lancers), Scarth (ditto) ; Messrs. Cross, Harr, Hambrook, Robert son (Surgeons) ; Mr. Manchu (Commissariat); Mr. Riddle (Mate of Salamander). The Columbia steamer, Mr. Henderson, Commander, arrived on Thursday from Jamaica, with invalids from the squadron and garrison. She left Port 'Royal on the 2d of July, and Crooed Island on the 10th, and sailed' all the way home. She left at Jamaica the Forte, Cruizer, Car ron, steamer, and Magnificent. The Admiral, in the Mel ville, had gone from Bermuda to Halifax. The ships and islands were healthy. The Columbia sailed for Chatham last evening, to be paid off. Nothing has been heard of Sir Charles Paget's squadron since it left Plymouth on the 11th instant. The Russell, 74, has not yet completed her fitment, and the Minden, 74, is detained by the prevalence of a fever of a mild sort among her crew-150 of whom are at the hospital. The Sylvia tender arrived from Sheerness on Wednesday, with supernumeraries for the ships fitting out here, and re turned on the following day. The Madagascar, 46, Captain Sir John Peyton, K.C.H., went out of harbour on Monday, and sailed yesterday for Plymouth, whence she will proceed, with the Galatea (coal depot ship), to Jamaica. A Board of Admiralty, which it is understood will be composed of the First Lord (Earl Minto), Sir Charles Adam, and Lord Dalmeny, will pay an official visit to this port on Monday next. By the new arrangement, the number to be borne on the books of the Victory (bearing the pendant of the Captain of the Ordinary at this port) is 662, including two addi tional Lieutenants, one Master, one Acting Master, two additional ditto, two Second Masters, two Masters' Assis tants, and one Assistant Clerk. The number of second class boys 88, of third class boys 25, able seamen 279, and the present number of Warrant Officers. Yesterday arrived the Waries and Harriet, from Quebec, laden with timber. To-day from London, the Eden (con vict ship), Capt. Mollison, and the Fairlie, Capt. Ager, for Van Diemen's Land. The Reindeer packet, Lieutenant Dicken, arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday, from Tampico, Vera Cruz, and Havannah, whence she sailed on the 25th June, 3d July, and 17th July ; has brought about 133,000 dollars on freight, and three passengers. Mexico is reported to be in a very unsettled state, and when the Reindeer sailed an in surrection was daily anticipated. The barque Severn passed by this afternoon from Can ton for London. She left Canton the 10th of February, Cape of Good Hope, 18th of May ; St. Helena 14th June Passengers landed are, Mrs. Ward and family, Mr. Thomas and family, Messrs. Hamilton, and Mr. J. S. Ward. She spoke, on her passage, the ship Waterloo, ship Trusty, and Anne (whaler.) We cannot learn that she brings any news. (From the Devonport Telegraph.) EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF THE BRITISH LEGION.—ST. SEBASTIAN, AUG. 12.—YOU have heard of the unsettled state of the Government, owing to the popular explosions in the cities and great towns in the kingdom. The country is on the brink of anarchy. Mean while, excepting the late disturbances in the Scotch regi ments, the soldiers of the Legion are going on steadily, and from the judicious measures adopted by Lieut -General Evans, I do not apprehend any recurrence of the insubordi nate spirit evinced a short time ago. Notwithstanding the reports to the contrary in England, you may rely on the fact, that nearly all the soldiers of the Legion have been paid in full to the 30th of June last, though the officers are still five months in arrear. Tile Lieut.-General's health is rapidly improving, but it is not likely that any movement will take place while the Government remains in its present unsettled state. Colonel Wild, the British Commissioner, went to St. Jean de Luz the day before yesterday in the Phoenix, en route to Pampluna, to have an interview with General Saarsfield, the successor of Cordova, who is re moved from the command of the Spanish armies. Two regiments, or battalions rather, of the French Legion from Pau, are to pass the Pyrenees on the 16th, to join General Evans. The Imogene, 28, Capt. H. W. Bruce, sailed on Mon day from Rio de Janeiro. Capt. Tait, Commander Smart, and other Officers appointed to the Dublin, and other ships in the South American station, are on board as passengers. —The same day the Brazilian corvette, the Dous de Julho, Capt. Ropozo, which has been lying here for several weeks past, sailed for Brest.—The Mulgrave, 74, sailed on Sun day, in charge of Mr. Walker, Second Master Attendant, with a party of riggers, and a division of the crew of the Russell, for Milford, where she is to remain as a lazaretto. The Carysfort, 26, built after the Vestal, by Sir Wm. Symonds, and just launched at Milford, is to be brought round to this port and immediately commissioned. The Pluto steamer, Lieut. Duffil, arrived here on Sun day from St. Sebastian, which she left on the 10th instant. She has brought home Capts. Mallock and Garmston, and Lieuts. Chambers and Branch, and 12 privates, sick and wounded, of the Royal Marines belonging to the battalion serving with the Legion.—The Constitution of 1812 had been proclaimed at Bilboa, and apprehensions were entertained that St. Sebastian would follow the example. The British Legion was in a very unsatisfactory state, and complained loudly that their pay was withheld, above 60,000 dollars being due. The Glasgow was to sail on the 11th, with two hundred and fifty invalids, and 30 officers who have retired from the service. General Evans was slowly recovering ; but it was not supposed he would be able to undergo fatigue for a month. When the Pluto left, three companies of the Royal Marines were quartered on the heights near Passages, employed in fortifying them ; and the other four were in barracks, converted for their accommodation, in the town. The Carlists were in the constant habit of making night attacks upon the advanced posts, and drawing off again by daylight, thus keeping the sentries continually on the watch. A great number of the Marine battalion had been upon the sick list, from dysen tery, but were daily getting better. A supply of new mus kets, with percussion locks, had been received from England, and were being tried against those of the old construction. The Wizard, 10, is ordered to be brought f2.rw4r-d ?or commission, and the defects of the Mvisquite, \Veazle, and Icarus, 10 gun are io be m a d e goo d f or th ree years ' Service : !Pile , rocris, and Ferret, 10 guns each, are sold out of the service. Lord Wilton's yacht the Zariffa arrived hero oo Saturday from Jersey, and has been haulad on the graving slip to have the damages which she sustained by getting on shore off that place repaired, The Scorpion, 10, Lieut. Robil hard, has been undocked, and will soon be ready to go out of harbour. The Galatea was taken into dock on Tuesday to have her defects made good, preparatory to her proceed jag to the West I n di es as a coa l d epot . - The Emerald tender arrived at Portsmouth on Satur day, from this port, The Sylvia tender, on Wednesday, (ADVERTISEMENTO fiES The NEW FLAT GOLD WATCH E, are offered in double-bottomed engine-turned cases, with accl oc o finished vertical movements, jewelled and warranted for o rf• Guineas each, or, with highlv..finished horizontal m oremet . tl:„ 3o % ranted at Nine Gui neas eac h; at T. COX SAVORY'S, " Goldsmith, Sil versm ith, an d Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, BTHS. On the 31st ult., at Carthag IR ena, in Spain, the A ir e of 3-f3tthe'‘ , Carter, Esq., his Britannic Alajesty's Consul a t th a t p l a ce, of ads On the 19th inst., a: Great George-street, Westminster, • Duncan, of a daughter. g • On the 11th inst., at Seotton Hall, Norfolk, th e l a dy 0- Si Durrant, Bart., of a daughter. MARRIED. of • f 4.f On the 16th inst ., at Brighton , Thulat Goode ' ,4311. ._. . _ .._ Grosvenor-square, Manchester, to p rance . I ,- . ",, ickstead, onlY ter of the late J. C. Finkel, Esq. I, l ,.s s i th ., t u o lt. iii a a t ry A ., v. o ) 01°121: :ccond daughter of the Hun' " hurP l Rectory, Frederick .--r_f a ter' FY:caerie Powys. SO' EE •t f Ric O k n ne t l h l, e On the 18th inst., at East Grinstead, George Covey, o goon, to Helen. yakiagest daughter of John Steuningt __.--/ Newland„ DIED. .Idford; Olt the sth inst., a t Li verpool, Mr. Joseph Deere, of G'7•Aesre• street, Russell- square, sculptor, nephew of the celebrated " m • The deceased was an artist of great promise. On the 15th i nst., at the residence- of her son, . • Sc h."' Chas Air • • igr field, Kingston-upon-Thames, Mrs. Schofield, aged 78. d s , 0 1 oda On the 19th i nst., at Courland, Wandsworth-road, of Mr. J. E. Hobson, aged 42. : On the 25th of MarCh, at Bombay, aged 19,147,,,:., °l it ' Russell, E sq . , o f the Civil Ser6ee, eldest son of the lati. sir "'- 0. Russell, Chief Justice aßengal ' ...............r. '____._._________,-,.m,iL• _•.• --( °- I t i London : Pr',ated and Published by AIURDO YOUNG, b e ai l 112, Strand, at The Sun O ffi ce, No. 112, Strand, in i of Middlesex, .\ from Sheerness with supernumeraries, and sailed for Sheer ness on the followiGg day. The Pantaloon, 10, on Thurs day from the river Gambia, which place she left on the 11th of July. She arrived at the Gambia from England on the 27th May, and conveyed the Governor of that place to Portendiek, on the 12th Jun,7, and arrived there on the 16th, with the presents to the Moorish chiefs ; sailed from thence for the Gambia on the sth July, and arrived there on the Bth. The Rolla was the only vessel at the Gamble, and the only one that communicated with the Pantaloon. The Gossamer tender sailed from Portsmouth on Thurs day for this port, with men for the squadron. The squadron under Sir Charles Paget are still on a cruize to the westward of Scilly, and are expected to re turn to this port, or to Spithead, some time next week. Mr. William Cleife has been promoted from the situation of clerk of his Majesty's Customs at Antigua, to that of searcher at Kingston, Jamaica. The Madagascar, 46, Captain Sir John S. Peyton, K.C.8., went out of Portsmouth Harbour on Monday , was inspected on Wednesday by the Admiral, and paid ad vance on Thursday. She will call at this port, whence she will proceed with the Gahtea, fitted for a coal depo t, direct to Jamaica. Sir John Payton on reaching tha station, will hoist a broad pendant, succeeding Coming' dore Pell. The Beagle, on her arrival at Spithead, will proceed to this port to be paid off. Remaining in Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, Sul. Josef, Russel, Fly, Comus, Scorpion, Hope, Magnet, S}feldrake► Pluto, steamer, Diligence, naval transport, and Falmouth , lighter. In the Sound—Minden. At Spithead on Thursday—Madagascar. In Portsmouth Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Pique, Inconstant, Beacon, Emerald, panta loon, Fanny, and Portsmouth yacht. The Columbia steamer, Mr. Henderson, Master, coin' manding, arrived o n th e 17th f rom Port Royal, Jamaica , which pace she left on th e 2 n d o f J u l y last ; on the 4th some of the works gave way, which detained her at Cuba for a week. She brought home Mr. Hoblin, Mate, and the Gunroom Steward of his Majesty's sloop Nimrod, invalided. The Columbia left for Portsmouth on Wednesday, from whence she will proceed to Deptford to be repaired. The Alban steam-vessel, Lieut. Tinling, will not be paid off, as has been reported, but, after she has got new boilers, will go to the Mediterranean. Ships and vessels ordered for sale lying at this port, —Malta, 84, Onyx, 10 gun brig, Ferret, do., and Prosust do. Vessels ordered to be brought forward for sea service —Stag, 46, Crocodile, 28, Satellite, 18, Icarnes, 10, Mug" quite, 10, Savage, 10, Weazle, 10, and Wizard, 10. The Russell, 74, is to he docked and specimens of the foulest copper taken from her bottom, to be sent to the board for inspection. The Pallas, 42, is alongside the Jetty, to be fitted for a coal depot at this place, the Tamar being t°°' small, the demand for steamers being very gre a t. The Samarang, 28, Conway, 28, and Larne, 18, at Portsmouth , are ordered to be brought forward for Commission. The new regulations for the Ordinary have not yet ar rived, but we understand that 700 effective men will en tered for that department, and borne on the books of the San Josef, the Captain's ship in Ordinary. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.-Mr. Frederick Holland is appointed to the rank of Lieutenant ; George Hodgkinson, Purser, is appointed to the PO I. broke ; Dr. William Brown, Assistant-Surgeon to th e Hope ; Mr. George Henry Somerville, Assistant-Surgeo u to the Pembroke ; and Mr. George Frederick Rowe, As sistant-Surgeon to the Magnet ; Mr. George Reading% Boatswain, to the Minden, vice Murray, to the Royal Ade' laide ; Commander Lord John F. Gordon to th e rank of Captain ; Commander John Bowen to the Coast Guard' vice W. C. Browne, resigned ; Lieutenant John Pollard t° the Coast Guard ; Dr. Edward Newman, Assistant-Sur geon, to the Inconstant ; Mr. John Smith (c), to be Sur' geon in charge of Henry Percher, convict ship ; Mr. Jam e s Thomas D av i s , S econ d M aster, to the Seaflower ; Mr. 1 - 1 ' A. Wale, College Volunteer, to the Asia ; Commode s ' Sidney C. Dacres to the Salamander steamer, vice Wpou: gall, promoted ; Mr. J. R. Duncan, Master'i, Assistant of Madagascar, to the Victory, as Second Master and P ll ° 4 to be employed in the buoy boat, vice Mr. C. J. Parker , appointed to the Portsmouth Yacht ; Mr. R. A. E. Scott' Midshipman, to the Excellent ; Mr. Michael Saunders, Gun" ner's Mate of the Excellent, to be Gunner of the Harlequirk We regret to intimate the death of Professor Rus" sell, which took place on Sunday last, at his summer residenc e of Bangholm Bo wer , i n the eighty-fifth year of his age. He was the son of Mr. James Russell, Professor of Natural Pbr losophy in our University, and from his earliest years acquire those professional habits, and that taste for scientific pursuit* which distinguished him through life.—Edinburgh Courant. YARMOUTH.—The rumour which last week pre vailed of Mr. Praed's intention to resign his seat for this borough, turns out to have been well founded, that gentiernau having issued an address to th e C onservat i ve e l ectors , declara tory of his determination to withdraw from the representation of Yarmouth at th e nex t di sso l ut i on o f P arl i ament. Mr. WWI is going to Aylesbury. He prefers being the mere represer tative of a Tory Peer's interest there, to again trying the hazardous experiment of purchasing a seat for Yarmouth , knowing, as he doe s , th a t "the tables are turned" against him ! , and that no T or y can ever k eep h i s seat here for any lengt h 0 1 time, without an expenditure of many thousands of pounds at each succeeding election. Mr. Rumbold has announced his intention of again becoming a candidate for the representation of Yarmouth, whenever a vacancy may occur. It is quite Wl' necessary for us to say one word here as to Mr. Rumbol° character or politics, his long connection with Yarmouth b as made them we ll k nown to every inhabitant. It is rumou red that Mr. Ly a ll, a s hi p -merchant of London, will offer hirnsfl, as a candidate for this borough at the next election. —Norte k ' Mercury. VIOLET, THE DA NSEUSE.—A MOTIg the forth' coming lit erary nove l t i es, i s a b ook bearing this attractl title. We know not whether the work be one of fiction or fact, but certainly a more fertile subject for the pen e ither ° the novelist, or of the more profound c h ron i c l er an d delinesi , tor of hu man c h aracter , cou ld h ar dl y b e f ound than i s afforded by the b r illi an t t h oug h evanescent career o f an OPer Dancer." A Clergyman of the Church of England, w ho 1 05 been thirty-eight years in the Ministry, and whose eniol l ; ments have never r e ach e d 1001. p er annum , d es i res to the through th e me di um o f our j ourna l , w h et h er "b oar d in ter house" be in c l u d e d i n th e l ucrat i ve o ff ers o f 25 1 . an d 40L P i .„ r annum, which are made by th e U n i ons , i n t h e i r ten ders l" Chaplains of the various workhouses ?—Norwich Mercury On Friday last, Mr. David Hanbury, of Sudbury' went to Hacheston to dine with Lis brother, 0. Hanbury, E d s e q s i At the dinner table .he sat opposite to Mrs. Hanbury (el her daughter of J. Cobbold, Esq. o f th e Cliff), an d s h or tly a"' h , sitting down, was observed to drop his head on one side, his slight noise was heard to proceed from his throat, and on brother rising and going to him, h e was f oun d a life , e o corpse. A few seconds before, he was conversing and elli ca l rently enjoying the pleasures of the dinner-table. Ige'ljo aid was immeiately summoned, but i t was o f cours e o avail. During the morning, Mr. Hanbury bad a mused h 5-. self with hitting a few balls at cr i c k et , an d when he leflted he complained of a slight stiff ness , w hi c h he said he esr'„it., to feel next day. lie was much respected for his good 1 rities and amiable disposition of heart_Suffolk Chronicl' One of the lightest j oc k eys t h at ever starte d jil t : saddle is William, the s on o f John Day, who made his duet: te at the late Goodwood r aces , and seems likely to perPe" is the family name and reputation. This diminutive liorsolth barely 13 years of age, and weighed only 5 stone 3 lbs., w be a lolb. saddle. Notwithstanding the large field of horsesocif., same to the start and rode with a degree of skill And / possession worthy of former days. ..' ___,...., --- r 1 '' TEAS OF A SUPERIOR QUAL. 2, BUCK LERSBURY, CHEAPSIDE. lii. Good Full-flavoured Breakfa s t T ea 3s. 6(1. per Ditto, strong and rough 4s. Od. to 45. 441. Fine Pekoe kind, rich and strong 4s. 6d. to 4s. 81 . Rich Pekoe Souchong ss. Od• Fine Flowery Pekoe 6 s , od. Good Green Tea Fine Hvson Finest ditto Good Coffee Mocha ditto Small Boxes, w e i g hi ng 121 b. net, i mported express l y for